Eulogy -Robert Frost

Robert freezing Robert freeze once debated whether the introduction rarityed in expel, or grouch. It is a sad thought that the globe get out block up without him that the future generations get out be orphic to much(prenominal) events made for people like Robert. He was an inspirational, Ameri preempt poet who distrusted the very core of our beliefs, he chose paths that a couple of(prenominal) had took, and that is wherefore today he is recalled today. Robert hoarfrost was born(p) in San Francisco on March 26, 1874.His family moved to unseas mavend England when he was eleven he became interested in reading and writing poetry during his high condition years in Lawrence, momma. He earned his starchy degree at the arguably the most reputable University, Harvard. He later worked by means of various occupations, ranging from instructor to editor of the Lawrence Sentinel. His inaugural professional poetry, My Butterfly, was publish on November 8, 1894, in The In dependent newspaper.In a 1970 reappraisal of The Poetry of Robert halt, the poet Daniel Hoffman describes Frosts early work as the prude ethic turned astonishingly lyrical and enabled to phrase out loud the sources of its own delight in the humanity, and comments on Frosts c beer as The Ameri keep going tooth fig out He became a national celebrity, our nearly decreed Poet Laureate, and a great performer in the usance of that earlier master of the literary vernacular, Mark Twain. just round Frost, President John F. Kennedy said, He has bequeathed his nation a body of imperishable verse from which Americans pull up stakes al federal agencys gain joy and understanding. Though his work is preponderantly associated with the life and scenery of New England, and though he was a poet of traditional verse forms and metrics who remained unshakably detached from the poetic movements and fashions of his time, Frost is anything only a merely regional or minor poet. The occasion o f searching and often dark meditations on planetary themes he is essentially a modern poet who r truthfully in all that encompasses, his work divine psychological battles inside ourselves, his works were fused with layers of abstruseness and irony.Robert Frost lived and taught for umteen years in Massachusetts and Vermont, and died in Boston on January 29, 1963. Two poems that debatably epitomise what Robert Frost stood for, what he believed in, how he opened the understandings of many a(prenominal) people to what is These two poems be fire and ice, and the lane not taken. The short poem fire and ice, outlines the familiar question active the destiny of the end of world, wondering if it is more than possible to be devastated by fire or ice. great deal are on some(prenominal) sides of the debate, and Frost introduces the cashier to provide his personal take on the question of the end of the world.The narrator commencement exercise determines that the world must en d in fire later carriage in mind his personal experiences with bank and passion, the emotions of fire. Yet, after considering his experience with ice, or horror, the narrator ack immediatelyledges that ice would be equally destructive. A reading depart promptly be d cardinal of the poem slightly introduce the world will end in fire, Some asseverate in ice. From what Ive tasted of desire I actuateling bag with those who favor fire. But if it had to perish twice, I ring I know complete of abominate To say that for destruction ice Is in any case great And would suffice.Only ennead lines, this miniature poem is a vivid display case of Frosts concisely ironic literary style. The poem varies betwixt two meter lengths (either viii syllables or four syllables) and uses three collections of interwoven poesys, found on -ire, -ice, and -ate. In the counterbalance two lines of the poem, Frost creates a clear dichotomy between fire and ice and the two groups of people that believe in separately element. By using the term few instead of I or an individual, Frost emphasizes that the bank bill between the two elements is a universal truth, not just an idea promoted by an individual.In addition to the needed contradiction between fire and ice, these first lines also outline the prerogative that the world will end as a direct result of ane of these elements. It is made unclear which element will soupcon to the destruction of the world, but it is noteworthy to know that these are the nevertheless(prenominal)(prenominal) two options given. The poem does not pull up stakes for any other possibilities in term of the worlds fate, just as there are not any other opinions allowed in the written language debate between fire and ice.Remarkably, the two prospects for the worlds destruction correspond directly to a common scientific debate during the time Frost wrote the poem. Much like this poem, scientists also debated the eventual end to the human being s, on cardinal side some believed the Earth will be destroyed by the anxious magma core, incinerating the Earth to nothing, while others believed that a new field glass Age would wither all livings things on the human beingss surface. Instead of preserving a strictly scientific perspective on this debate, Frost introduces a more emotional side, associating passionate desire with fire and hatred with ice.Within this simileical view of the two elements, the world can be recognized as a metaphor for and consequently foregrounding to the audience, a relationship. Too some(prenominal) fire and passion can quickly tucker a relationship, while cold indifference and hate can be equally destructive Although the first two lines of the poem insist that there can only be a single weft between fire and ice, the narrator provided lucubrate that a combination or a agree sequence of both elements would destroy the Earth.Furthermore, the fact that he has had personal experience with both ( in the form of desire and hate) reveals that fire and ice are not mutually exclusive, as the first two lines of the poem assert. In fact, though the narrator first concludes that the world will end in fire, he ultimately admits that the world could just as easily end in ice fire and ice, it seems, are strikingly similar. This further highlights what Frost believes in relationships. That, although a concentration of one emotion, passion or hatred can be destructive he poses that one cannot be without both of them existing.The second poem analysed will be The pathway not taken. The narrator bangs upon a fall apart in the road while walking through a yellow wood. He considers both paths and concludes that each one is equally well-travelled and appealing. After choosing a path, the narrator when he will come back to the branching to film the different path, he later realises this will possibly never happen but that he will only come to new forks (new decisions), his mind then pond ers on how different his life would turn over been if he chose the different path, a reading will now be done.Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth because took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the let on claim, Because it was grassy and wanted wear Though as for that the modification there Had worn them really about the same, And both that morning equally lay In leaves no step had trodden black. Oh, I kept the first for another day Yet knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted if I should ever come back.I shall be telling this with a sigh somewhere ages and ages hence Two roads diverged in a wood, and I I took the one less travelled by, And that has made all the difference. This poem is made up of four stanzas of five lines, each with a rhyme scheme of ABAAB. This poem is one of Frosts most adored works and is used many time s in English studies. Since its publication, many readers gain analysed the poem as a nostalgic annotation on life choices. The narrator decided to suppress the day and express himself as an individual by choosing the road that was less travelled by. As a result of this decision, the narrator claims that his life was essentially different, that it would confuse been had he chosen the well-travelled path. This reading of the poem is tremendously popular because every reader can commiserate with the narrators decision having to choose between two paths without having any knowledge of where each road will lead. Moreover, the narrators decision to choose the less travelled path demonstrates his courage. Rather than victorious the safe path that others have travelled, the narrator prefers to delineate his own way in the world.However, when we look finisher at the text of the poem, it becomes clear that much(prenominal) an august analysis is largely inaccurate. The narrator only distinguishes the paths from one another after he has already selected one and travelled many years through life. When he first comes upon the fork in the road, the paths are exposit as being fundamentally identical. In terms of beauty, both paths are equally fair, and the overall passing there / Had worn them really about the same. It is only as an old man that the narrator looks back on his life and decides to place such brilliance on this particular decision in his life.During the first three stanzas, the narrator shows no sense of compunction for his decision nor might any acknowledgement that such a decision be important to his life. Yet, as an old man, the narrator attempts to give a sense of order to his past and perhaps explain why certain things happened to him. Of course, the excuse that he took the road less travelled by is false, but the narrator unflustered clings to this decision as a defining meaning of his life, not only because of the path that he chose but b ecause he had to make a choice in the first place.So now, we will remember American poet, Robert Frost for his ingenious input into such universal truths and how such knowledge can be extracted from his points of view. He is now gone from this Earth, but let us remember him, for his works, for inspiring us to take the road less taken when we come to our own cross roads, to tame our relationships with fire and ice. With these works, dear Robert has left us with enough knowledge and understanding to replace the hole that he has made.